ALLEGED dodgy dealings within an a mystical outfit described by some as “Jewish Scientology” may have led to the collapse of Madonna’s $15-million girls’ school in Malawi. Newsweek reports that the pop superstar has abandoned the project despite helping raise $18-million, and that the collapse of the Raising Malawi scheme was largely due to the [...]
A WELSH councillor is facing a disciplinary hearing after calling the Church of Scientology “stupid” in a post on the Twitter website. Wales’ public standards watchdog said John Dixon is likely to have breached the code of conduct for local authority members with his short message last year. The Church of Scientology, according to this [...]
FOLLOWING the news this week that “Church” of Scientology is infiltrating UK prisons via an anti-drug outfit called Criminon, a law suit has been launched in the US against the cult by a former member and his wife. In the test case Marc Headley and his wife, Claire, say they were treated like slaves and [...]
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GERMAN Scientologists are trying to block the broadcast of a film that depicts the cult as dangerous and unethical. The 90-minute film Bis Nichts Mehr Bleibt (Until Nothing Remains) tells the story of a family’s strife as a result of its involvement with the cult. According to this report, it tells the true story of [...]
ON March 4 we revealed that one of Scientology’s many front organisations, the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, was to have a presence at the Lib Dem conference in Birmingham. Well, now they are not. According to a message posted today by Hartley Patterson on the anti-Scientology blog, WhyWeProtest, the CCHR has been given the [...]
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I’VE heard L Ron Hubbard, inventor of the mind-destroying cult known as Scientology, called many things: charlatan, bully, crook, liar and chronic drug abuser, to name but a few. But go to the website of the Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights, and there you will find the cynical old fraud described as an “humanitarian and [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
